The "Up to the Minute" BP Livefeed Discussion Thread

Anyone know what that red stuff is in the water on Q4000 below deck cam? At first I thought it was a reflection of something, but after watching it, I
noticed it moving and changing like something actually under the suface. Are they burning something? It almost looks like fire....check it out and
tell me what you think.

i only saw it for a sec before it seems to have disappeared. could it have been a reflection?

It could be, but it was so strange looking. The reason it disappeared was because after being in color all day, they suddenly changed it to black &
white so that the red parts just looked like ripples in the water. I took some pics, but I have to crop them and then I'll post. What made me think
it wasn't a reflectionwas the fact that it increased so much, and there was something cloudy in the water in the very center. Someone else said it
looked like ribbons of oil being sprayed by dispersant....some said fire, some said reflection...I was thinking reflection, but it really did look
like something physical.

Dragon....will you go look at the feed showing the surface of the water? Q4000 below deck? What justadood and I were talking about is back in color so
you can see it now....is that oil? Notice the cloud in the center with the red stuff around it.

i only saw it for a sec before it seems to have disappeared. could it have been a reflection?

It could be, but it was so strange looking. The reason it disappeared was because after being in color all day, they suddenly changed it to black &
white so that the red parts just looked like ripples in the water.

no, i started watching it as soon as you put that post up, and it was still in color. I saw the color you refer to for a moment, but it went away
quickly. didnt see it in black and white at all.

BP's description of that feed was 'on standby'. i doubt they would have an ROV in standby mode showing something they dont want us to see. why not
just turn it away if it was showing something?

he committee also heard that BP was aware of problems on the semisub before the explosion. Representatives said documents and company briefings
suggested that BP, Transocean and Halliburton ignored tests that flagged up faults in the BOP.

Originally posted by ANNED
One BP offical on TV seamed quite happy that the BOP had been recovered and was heading to NASA to be looked at.

Do you get the feeling that BP is hoping the NASA and federal engineers find that Transocean really screwed up and did not maintain there BOP.
Or that they were using a broken BOP to save money.

This would allow BP to shift most or all the blame to Transocean.

I was watching a TV show about all this and they said something about BP cutting corners and all. There was some type of rings they were supposed to
use ......they were supposed to use 21.....and they only used 6....and the show was saying that perhaps that led to the blow out. That's why one of
the guys in the lifeboat with one of the BP big wigs heard him say on the phone to another head honcho from BP... "Are you F'n HAPPY now? It
happened!"

This is my understand about the "rings" you were referring to. This is key to the blowout. They are a kind of centralizer, I believe they are
called. They hold the drill pipe securely in the center of the casing, so the cementing is equally distributed and there is less chance of gas coming
up the pipe and exploding. I believe Mike Williams, the TO employee who did the 60 minutes interview talked about them...perhaps I'm wrong, here.
I've read elsewhere that they are key: that even though the usual 21 were on board, a decision was made by BP to not use them all, as it would be
time consuming and they were already behind schedule. I know the 60 minutes interview is still on youtube. It's chilling, as he talk about the two
wells and also minutes leading up to and after the explosion.

I believe this was discussed in some of the hearings that have been conducted, by the Navy and Coast Guard and/or Senate hearings, but don't know
which ones, unfortunately.

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